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Bode vs. Forebode — What's the Difference?

Bode vs. Forebode — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bode and Forebode

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Bode

Be a portent of a particular outcome
The 12 per cent interest rate bodes dark days ahead for retailers
Their argument did not bode well for the future

Forebode

(of a situation or occurrence) act as an advance warning of (something bad)
This lull foreboded some new assault upon him

Bode

To be an omen of
Heavy seas that boded trouble for small craft.

Forebode

To indicate the likelihood of; portend
Harsh words that foreboded estrangement.

Bode

(Archaic) To predict; foretell.
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Forebode

To have a premonition of (a future misfortune).

Bode

To be an omen; portend
The peace accord bodes well for the city under siege.

Forebode

To prophesy or predict.

Bode

A past tense of bide.

Forebode

To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

Bode

(ambitransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.

Forebode

To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.

Bode

To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.

Forebode

(obsolete) prognostication; presage

Bode

An omen; a foreshadowing.
RQ:Chaucer Parlement of Foules

Forebode

To foretell.

Bode

A bid; an offer.

Forebode

To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
His heart forebodes a mystery.
Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Cæsar's death.
I have a sort of foreboding about him.

Bode

A herald; a messenger.

Forebode

To foretell; to presage; to augur.
If I forebode aright.

Bode

A stop; a halting; delay.

Forebode

Prognostication; presage.

Bode

To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
A raven that bodes nothing but mischief.
Good onset bodes good end.

Forebode

Make a prediction about; tell in advance;
Call the outcome of an election

Bode

To foreshow something; to augur.
Whatever nowThe omen proved, it boded well to you.

Bode

An omen; a foreshadowing.
The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.

Bode

A bid; an offer.

Bode

A messenger; a herald.

Bode

A stop; a halting; delay.

Bode

Abode.
There that night they bode.

Bode

Bid or bidden.

Bode

Indicate by signs;
These signs bode bad news

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